Miles Teller Reteams with Damien Chazelle for 'La La Land'

Miles Teller and director Damien Chazelle made quite the splash at Sundance this year with their well-received drama "Whiplash," and according to The Wrap, the duo are in talks to reprise their collaboration on Chazelle's upcoming musical "La La Land."

Miles Teller and director Damien Chazelle made quite the splash at Sundance this year with their well-received drama "Whiplash," and according to TheWrap, the duo are ready to reprise their collaboration on Chazelle's upcoming musical "La La Land."

On his Facebook page, Teller writes: "Excited to work with Damien again (whiplash) he's extremely talented and this is another script of hrs written and will direct. For all of you huge Harry Potter fans out there, this ones for you."

"Whiplash," the story of a young jazz drummer named Andrew (Teller) at a top music school studying under the watchful and sometimes fearsome eye of his teacher Terence (J.K. Simmons), wowed the Park City crowd, winning the U.S. Dramatic Competition Grand Jury Prize as well as the Dramatic Audience Award. Sony Pictures Classics snapped up U.S. rights to the film, which it will release on October 10. "Whiplash" screened at Cannes' Directors' Fortnight, where it was well-received.

In our TOH! video interview, Teller discussed his musical background growing up in a family of music lovers and learning piano, guitar, saxophone and rock drums. Nevertheless, he said, during his preparation for the film, he practiced so much that he developed blisters on his fingers to match the fake blood that Chazelle added during filming.

"La La Land," Chazelle's new project, focuses on Mia, an aspiring, lonely actress, and Sebastian, a charismatic but full-of-himself jazz pianist, who meet and fall for each other in Los Angeles. "Harry Potter" star Emma Watson is being courted to play Mia, with Jordan Horowitz ("The Kids Are All Right") and Fred Berger of Impostor Pictures producing and Chazelle's "Whiplash" composer Justin Hurwitz providing the music. Lionsgate will distribute.

TheWrap got its hands on Chazelle's 'lookbook' for the film and published this except from the director's vision statement:

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